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Cleaning Up the Nation

Austin Bay:

If Air America were a conservative radio network its corrupt funding trail and cynical abuse of a poverty program would be front page news at the NY Times and full-time mega-scandal at

Rank Materialism

Freedom. I am now the proud new owner of a Gateway 6020GZ laptop, perfect for students and others with limited means. I can now go into a Starbucks or a Barnes & Noble and look like I'm doing some

Fallujah Fonda

Uh-oh. From the Telegraph comes this exciting news:

Jane Fonda is returning to anti-war activism and embarking on a cross-country tour to call for an end to US military operations in Iraq.

Acros

John Pilger: Partner in Terrorism

In an outrageous piece of terrorist propaganda appearing on the cover of today's New Statesman, John Pilger puts the blame for the 7/7 London attacks not on the terrorists, but rather on Tony Blair:

Desperate Times

There are some people who are getting rather desperate where the US election is concerned. Some of those people are John Kerry and John Edwards.

Mary Cheney is a lesbian, as the both of them have reminded us during the debates. To what end they have raised this is something of a controversy. Some are claiming that Kerry/Edwards are using Cheney's daughter to put some light between the Republican ticket and the far/fundamentalist right. Mrs. Edwards denied that this was a possibility at all: What's wrong with bringing up Mary Cheney all the time? After all, it's not like there's anything for them to be ashamed of. How Seinfeldian. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Kerry, in an interview published in the The Des Moines Register today, says that Bush'll bring back the draft. Possibly.

With George Bush, the plan for Iraq is more of the same and the great potential of a draft.

No one in the know believes that this is true, but if it can scare ignorant people into voting for him, well why not? Of course it's the Dems who've cynically sponsored draft legislation lately. And then complained when the bill was brought to the floor and soundly defeated.

John Edwards makes the claim that Superman will walk again. Or would have:

If we do the work that we can do in this country, the work that we will do when John Kerry is president, people like Christopher Reeve will get up out of that wheelchair and walk again.

CNN reports that "[Bill] Frist, a Republican from Tennessee, called Edwards' remark 'crass' and 'shameful,' and said it gave false hope that new treatments were imminent." Quite right. Frist is the Speaker of the House, of course, and a doctor too.

The leftist Guardian is running a campaign to bother a bunch of us Ohioans. They're giving out the names and addresses of Clark county registered voters and having readers send letters imploring the voters to vote- one way or another. The Guardian doesn't say which way (wink, wink). They've published some letters that famous English leftists have written, including one from our friend Richard Dawkins:

Don't be so ashamed of your president: the majority of you didn't vote for him. If Bush is finally elected properly, that will be the time for Americans travelling abroad to simulate a Canadian accent.

I certainly can't speak for every Ohioan, or for even one other for that matter, but no one's going to be persuaded by threatening letters from an English professor.

There's more to come in this vein I'm sure. Eighteen days left.

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